Announce: D64 Explorer application

[m***@hotmail.com]

Heyas!

I believe that this is my first post to comp.sys.cbm. I've browsed here in the past but never had much of a reason to post before.

I'm hoping that this is the correct place to make this announcement.

I have recently been in need of a tool that would allow me to view the contents of .d81 images as well as analyse GEOS files. I couldn't find such a tool on the web so I've written one.

So I'm pleased to announce the release of D64 Explorer. It allows you to view the contents of .D64, .D71 and .D81 image files. It provides detailed analysis of the file contents and supports GEOS files.

You can find the application at:

<https://github.com/m3wP/D64Explorer>

I hope you will find it useful!

Thanks for reading.


Daniel.

[c***@billmo.com]

There is always DirMaster (currently just on windows though)
http://style64.org/release/dirmaster-v3.1.1-style

[Daniel England]

Post by c***@billmo.com
There is always DirMaster (currently just on windows though)
http://style64.org/release/dirmaster-v3.1.1-style

Hmm... Quite nice. I didn't know it existed. It says its been in development for seven years! D64 Explorer has had three days of development time.

DirMaster wouldn't have met the requirements I had when I started D64 Explorer though. It doesn't seem to like GEOS VLIR files very much and I needed to dissect them and I pretty much needed ASCII dumps... I can't find a sector editor, either. Oh yes, I found it but its opened in a strange way. The assembler viewer insists on ignoring the first two bytes, too which isn't right for a GEOS program.

D64 Explorer will run on all of the usual suspects and is a little more "straight forward". Its also open source. I will definitely be looking at DirMaster for inspiration for features in the future though.


Daniel.

[Daniel England]

Guys,

Sorry about this but currently D64 Explorer doesn't support .D81 directory partitions as directories (just as "files"). I'm working on the functionality now. I forgot to mention it as a limitation in the readme.

If you want the application now and don't need that functionality, then go ahead and build the current version. Otherwise, you might want to hold off until tomorrow or so when I've finished writing the functionality in.

Sorry again...

BTW, this is probably off topic but there is a problem in Vice 2.4 that prevents directory partitions working in the 1581 emulation. I've had to go back to version 2.2 to get it working and even then, sometimes the drive hangs.


Daniel.

[Daniel England]

Sorry guys for the version update so quickly. I wasn't sure how long it would take me to implement the directory partition support so I released it before it was complete.

The functionality is complete now (less the slight change I want to do to the BAM viewer). I even had to do some BASIC programming on the C128 emulation to get there! It wasn't quite as bad as I was expecting but I wasn't expecting to devote the weekend to it. :(

Anyway, you'll find the new version on GitHub.


Daniel.